Rigoberto Lara Guzmán (they/he) is a Mexican digital producer, theorist, and design strategist. They reside in the Northeastern Woodlands as a remote tech worker in the critical research environment facilitating dialogue on contemporary technoculture, data governance, and decolonial computation. They are a member of The Guild of Future Architects, Tierra Común, and the Design Justice Network.
Rigoberto Lara Guzmán
Rigoberto is a network architect, social enzyme and conduit.
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DATABITE SERIES
Conversations on The Datafied State
Event, Podcast, Video
Moving Through Molasses: On Intellectual Labor, Productivity, and Belonging
Shaka McGlottenMeredith D. Clark
Storytelling Workshop
Parables of AI in/from the Global South
Primer
A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World
Sareeta AmruteRanjit SinghRigoberto Lara Guzmán
All Work
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podcast
The Andrea Mitchell PodcastSeptember 2023 -
Workshop
Data & SocietyAugust 2023 -
Book or Chapter
Resource
Data & SocietyThis anthology was curated from stories of living with data and AI in/from the majority world, narrated at a storytelling workshop in October 2021 organized by Data & Society Research Institute. Read moreDecember 2022 -
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Data & SocietyThis conversation centers care as both the means and an end to providing safe abortions, connecting activists, and understanding how the "digital" can facilitate and impede reproductive liberation. ____________ Alejándose de los debates sobre la privacidad digital y protección de datos para personas que quieren abortar, este evento pone en el centro al cuidado como medio y objetivo para garantizar el aborto seguro, conectando a activistas y discutiendo sobre cómo lo digital puede facilitar (u obstacular) la liberación reproductiva. Read moreNovember 2022 -
event
podcast
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Data & SocietyA conversation hosted by Data & Society’s Labor Futures initiative about the hidden relational dynamics that shape how we shop today. Read moreOctober 2022 -
event
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Data & SocietyThe outcome of a deep collaboration between Sareeta Amrute, Ranjit Singh, and Rigoberto Lara Guzmán (and informed by a range of feminists, Indigenous thinkers, anti-caste scholars, and Afro-futurists), A Primer on AI in/from th... Read moreOctober 2022 -
Primer
Data & SocietyA resource by Sareeta Amrute, Ranjit Singh, and Rigoberto Lara Guzmán exploring the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the Majority World. 160 thematic works, available in English and Spanish, curated in collaboration with Aishatu Gwadabe, Dibyadyuti Roy, Kimberly Fernandes, Murali Shanmugavelan, Nicolás Llano Linares, Paola Ricaurte Quijano, Soledad Magnone, and Vasundhra Dahiya. Read moreSeptember 2022 -
blog post
Data & SocietySeptember 2021 -
podcast
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Data & SocietySasha Costanza-Chock re-imagines how design led by marginalized communities can become a tool to help dismantle structural inequality, advance collective liberation, & support ecological survival. Read moreApril 2020 -
blog post
PointsAnthropologist Anita Say Chan, interviewed by Data & Society Events Producer Rigoberto Lara Guzmán & Communications Associate Natalie Kerby. Read on PointsApril 2020